A wireless network for off-shore marine research.

Krzysztof Gierlowski, Gda sk University of Technology (Poland), krzgierl@pg.edu.pl Michal Hoeft, Gda sk University of Technology (Poland), michal.hoeft@pg.edu.pl Marcin Wichorowski, Institute of Oceanology PAS (Poland), wichor@iopan.pl This paper presents functionality, the most important technology developments and potential use cases of digital communication system, developed to facilitate selected tasks commonly required during off-shore operations and marine research, including: broadband information sharing between platforms isolated from an on-shore communication infrastructure, acquisition of large data-sets from variety of off-shore data sources (e.g. fleet of drones) as well as remote access and control to the research infrastructure exploited in environment with limited communication between neighboring devices. 262 Posters Session Tech- Marine environmental data bases: infrastructures and data access systems Users can connect to the appliance by built-in Wi-Fi access or it can be connected to on-board Ethernet (Fig. These resources could be VHF data links, popular Wi-Fi technologies and solutions dedicated for marine environment. [Extracted from the article]